All posts tagged "ancient history"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
November 22, 2023Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
November 13, 2023In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
November 8, 2023The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
October 28, 2023"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...